Dyckhoff said his own architectural pleasure is the Former Swiss Bank on St James Street in London, which was designed by Rodney Gordon.

"This is mine. One of the first buildings I 'noticed' as a kid, on a trip to London. Love that brown glass *So 1970s*," he tweeted.

Do you have an architectural “guilty pleasure”? This is mine. One of the first buildings I “noticed” as a kid, on a trip to London. LOVE that brown glass *SO 1970s*. Former Swiss Bank, St James Street, by Rodney Gordon, of Tricorn fame. pic.twitter.com/ZsQ31EjmTb

Well-known structures including the Millennium Dome (now the O2) in London, La Defense in Paris, the Walt Disney concert hall in Los Angeles, Trump Tower in New York and the Petronas towers, have been revealed as buildings people secretly enjoy.

Former RIBA president Ruth Reed asked if she should be guilty about liking the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which was designed by César Pelli. It was the tallest building in the world when it completed in 1998.

Although many architects profess to favour a minimal aesthetic, the majority of guilty pleasures were more extravagant. This suggests that a lot of critics and architects enjoy the glazed and colourful architecture of the 1980 and 1990s, even if they would normally keep this secret.

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